Three women and I have been friends for decades. Today we created a party for ourselves centered around voting! We met to cast our votes, then came to my house for lunch and an afternoon of good-humored card play. We laughed and enjoyed each other’s company on this exceptionally warm autumn day. It’s easy to fall into a habit of expressing fear over world events, or individual grief and illness can be the main topic of conversation. But don’t do it! Make a point of enjoying the beauty of life, revel in the coziness of a good book, cuddle up with your pets and loved ones. Invite someone for tea whom you haven’t seen in a long while. Write a letter to a friend who lives far away. Ask your neighbor if you can help them with anything. It’s the little things which bring joy, don’t you think? And we have a never-ending supply…
“Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful. Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness or gloom.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 249:3-7
“I love You, Father, and I love Your Son. My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And thus am I restored to my reality at last. All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.
“Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son.”
A Course in Miracles W-298.1:1–2:4
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